Simulation of Ionisation Dynamics and Electron Kinetics
Abstract
A simple and efficient scheme is presented for simultaneously solving the ionisation dynamics and the electron kinetic equations. The atomic processes accounted for include collisional excitation and ionisation, dielectronic and radiative recombination. The integro-differential equations governing the evolution of the ionisation stages and the electron distribution function are approximated numerically with a Gauss quadrature scheme and finite differences. The result is a set of algebraic nonlinear equations which are solved by iterations.
- Publication:
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Journal of Computational Physics
- Pub Date:
- December 1991
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0021-9991(91)90004-5
- Bibcode:
- 1991JCoPh..97..352M